Rugby union: England captain Lawrence Dallaglio looks set to
announce his retirement from international rugby today. The Wasps star
has called a mid-morning press conference at Twickenham, when he will
make what has been described as "an important announcement".
Dallaglio, 32, would follow fellow England World Cup winners Martin
Johnson, Neil Back, Jason Leonard and Kyran Bracken if he decides to end
his Test career.

CRICKET: India batsman Sachin Tendulkar will miss the three-match
NatWest Challenge one-day series against England, due to start tomorrow,
because of tennis elbow. But he has not been ruled out of the ICC Champions trophy which starts on September 10. No replacement has been
sought for Tendulkar.

MOTORCYCLING: Michael Rutter and Yukio Kagayama took the victories
in a dramatic 11th round of the THINK! British Superbike Championship at
Cadwell Park. In the opening race Rutter, leading throughout, for his
sixth victory of the season. Kagayama, who in the corresponding round
last year had sustained life-threatening injuries in a horror crash, led
throughout to take a highly popular victory.

MOTOR RACING: McLaren have vowed to put an early end to Michael
Schumacher's title celebrations. The Ferrari driver captured his
seventh world championship with second place in Sunday's Belgian
Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. But Kimi Raikkonen won in style to
announce McLaren's return to the top step of the podium and team
boss Ron Dennis joined the Finn in warning Ferrari to expect tough times
ahead.

MOTOR RACING: Englishman Dan Wheldon claimed an historic Indy
Racing League victory in the Indy 225 at Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Wheldon, from Emberton, got his title challenge back on track with his
win in the 100th IRL race, his third victory of a superb season. He saw
off the challenge of Andretti Green team-mates Dario Franchitti and Tony
Kanaan to cut the gap on the championship-leading Brazilian to 72
points. Yorkshireman Darren Manning finished sixth for Target Chip
Ganassi Racing while Londoner Mark Taylor crashed his Access car after
57 laps.

ATHLETICS: German athletics is set to pay a heavy financial price
for their nation's dismal showing at the Olympic Games. Not one of
the 79 German participants in Athens could pick up a gold medal and only
two, shot-putter Nadine Kleinert and Steffi Nerius in the javelin,
managed to win a silver medal. That translates as the worst return by a
German athletics squad since the 1956 Games in Melbourne. The
government, whose financial support for the athletes and training camps
depends on how successful they are, are now certain to make massive
cuts.

MOTOR RACING: Justin Wilson was denied a maiden Champ Car podium by
a gearbox failure in the Molson Indy Montreal. The Yorkshireman made
swift progress from ninth on the grid and was running fifth when the
gearbox went, leaving the Mi-Jack Conquest Racing driver frustrated.
Fellow Yorkshireman Guy Smith also failed to finish due to a mechanical
problem as former Williams Formula One test driver Bruno Junqueira won.

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